NotALiberal said:
I feel like bringing up 1984 is basically the same thing as satisfying Godwin's Law in any debate that gets slightly political.
Also, in this case it is totally off. Saying "you shouldn't say that because it was offensive" is a lot different from saying "you said something that offended me, so you should be put in jail" or "we should monitor and control people's thoughts and language so that if they say something that could threaten the government we can rectify the situation".
Bit of a ridiculous exaggeration, no?
Not really, no. I wasn't saying the government was going to bust down doors, what I WAS saying, is how people (who admit what he said wasn't malicious in intent) were suggesting he "change his wording" because he might "offend" some people. That, right there, is the
1984 bullshit I was referring to. What happened to not having a stick up your ass all the time like all these internet White Knights and Femnazis seem to?
So what someone got "offended"? You literally cannot say ANYTHING without the possibility of it "offending" someone. I do mean that, if someone wants to be offended, they will find a way to twist your words and take "offence" to them. Like has happened here, people didn't care about rationality and logic, they didn't care about the fact that Hemmingway could possibly be referring to his girlfriend, no, everyone just wanted to get on that white horse and look down on the filthy sexist developer while acting self important and indignant.
Also, I find it coincidental it was EUROgamer that first broke the story, because yes, some European countries are
1984 to the letter. What with their Holocaust denial laws, and "hate speech" laws as to avoid offending people that will actually land you REAL jailtime, for merely speaking an opinion (the fact that they are hilariously wrong is irrelevant when it comes to free speech). I know this doesn't really have much relevance to the story, but I thought it was rather funny.